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M4carp said:
Hopefully this will clean under the machines as well, fed up of seeing bits on the dark blue carpet tiles.
This freak can come out at night🤖
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People were laughing at these things until everyone started to realise that they are legitimately ****ing great to have.

I've always wanted one (a robo-vac) but I admit even I used to think that dishwashers were for the chronically lazy. Married, working life means I now see sense. I cannot wait to move out of our tiny flat into a place where we can afford the space for a dishwasher.

******** to dishwashing. ******** to vacuuming as well.
 
PBrookfield said:
People were laughing at these things until everyone started to realise that they are legitimately ****ing great to have.

I've always wanted one (a robo-vac) but I admit even I used to think that dishwashers were for the chronically lazy. Married, working life means I now see sense. I cannot wait to move out of our tiny flat into a place where we can afford the space for a dishwasher.

******** to dishwashing. ******** to vacuuming as well.
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I agree 100% and laugh at people who say they love cutting the grass, well there is a robot for that too and they are very good😁
 
ronnie63 said:
It's meant to suck tho aint it:hmm:
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To be fair the Roombas are riding on their brand right now rather than improving what they helped to innovate e.g. all of their models are circular which means they still can't clean corners.

D shapes are starting to appear that solve this, now that the tracking + moving side of things is improving very fast, they can cope with manoeuvring the trickier shape.
 
M4carp said:
Hopefully this will clean under the machines as well, fed up of seeing bits on the dark blue carpet tiles.
This freak can come out at night🤖
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I bought the original Roomba when it first came out as I had wooden floors. Was great but the battery did die after a while (capacity after re-charge). They'll be much better now. I reckon that must have been around 14 years ago (2 houses back).

I think the grass cutting robots might be OK but they'd need to be out regularly and mulching I'd assume as they won't be able to cut much grass off each time. Not sure how many I'd need for just under 10 acres though....
 
M4carp said:
Hopefully this will clean under the machines as well, fed up of seeing bits on the dark blue carpet tiles.
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Hope you dont have any animals....

So, last week, something pretty tragic happened in our household. It's taken me until now to wrap my head around it and find the words to describe the horror. It started off simple enough - something that's probably happened to most of you.

Sometime between midnight and 1:30am, our puppy Evie pooped on our rug in the living room. This is the only time she's done this, so it's probably just because we forgot to let her out before we went to bed that night. Now, if you have a detective's mind, you may be wondering how we know the poop occurred between midnight and 1:30am. We were asleep, so how do I know that time frame?

Why, friends, that's because our Roomba runs at 1:30am every night, while we sleep. And it found the poop. And so begins the Pooptastrophe. The poohpocalypse. The pooppening.

If you have a Roomba, please rid yourself of all distractions and absorb everything I'm about to tell you.

Do not, under any circumstances, let your Roomba run over dog poop. If the unthinkable does happen, and your Roomba runs over dog poop, stop it immediately and do not let it continue the cleaning cycle. Because if that happens, it will spread the dog poop over every conceivable surface within its reach, resulting in a home that closely resembles a Jackson Pollock poop painting.

It will be on your floorboards. It will be on your furniture legs. It will be on your carpets. It will be on your rugs. It will be on your kids' toy boxes. If it's near the floor, it will have poop on it. Those awesome wheels, which have a checkered surface for better traction, left 25-foot poop trails all over the house. Our lovable Roomba, who gets a careful cleaning every night, looked like it had been mudding. Yes, mudding - like what you do with a Jeep on a pipeline road. But in poop.

Then, when your four-year-old gets up at 3am to crawl into your bed, you'll wonder why he smells like dog poop. And you'll walk into the living room. And you'll wonder why the floor feels slightly gritty. And you'll see a brown-encrusted, vaguely Roomba-shaped thing sitting in the middle of the floor with a glowing green light, like everything's okay. Like it's proud of itself. You were still half-asleep until this point, but now you wake up pretty damn quickly.

And then the horror. Oh the horror.

So, first you clean the child. You scrub the poop off his feet and put him back in bed. But you don't bother cleaning your own feet, because you know what's coming. It's inevitable, and it's coming at you like a freight train. Some folks would shrug their shoulders and get back in bed to deal with it in the morning. But you're not one of those people - you can't go to sleep with that war zone of poop in the living room.

So you clean the Roomba. You toss it in the bathtub to let it soak. You pull it apart, piece-by-piece, wondering at what point you became an adult and assumed responsibility for 3:30am-Roomba-disassembly-poop-cleanups. By this point, the poop isn't just on your hands - it's smeared up to your elbows. You already heard the Roomba make that "whirlllllllllllllllll-boop-hisssssssss" noise that sounds like electronics dying, and you realize you forgot to pull the battery before getting it wet. More on that later.

Oh, and you're not just using profanity - you're inventing new types of profanity. You're saying things that would make Satan shudder in revulsion. You hope your kid stayed in bed, because if he hears you talking like this, there's no way he's not ending up in prison.

Then you get out the carpet shampooer. When you push it up to the rug - the rug that started it all - the shampooer just laughs at you. Because that rug is going in the trash, folks. But you shampoo it anyway, because your wife loved that damn rug, and you know she'll ask if you tried to clean it first.

Then you get out the paper towel rolls, idly wondering if you should invest in paper towel stock, and you blow through three or four rolls wiping up poop. Then you get the spray bottle with bleach water and hose down the floor boards to let them soak, because the poop has already dried. Then out comes the steam mop, and you take care of those 25-ft poop trails.

And then, because it's 6am, you go to bed. Let's finish this tomorrow, right?

The next day, you finish taking the Roomba apart, scraping out all the tiny flecks of poop, and after watching a few Youtube instructional videos, you remove the motherboard to wash it with a toothbrush. Then you bake it in the oven to dry. You put it all back together, and of course it doesn't work. Because you heard the "whirlllllllllllllll-boop-hissssssss" noise when it died its poopy death in the bathtub. But you hoped that maybe the Roomba gods would have mercy on you.

But there's a light at the end of the tunnel. After spending a week researching how to fix this damn $400 Roomba without spending $400 again - including refurb units, new motherboards, and new batteries - you finally decide to call the place where you bought it. That place called Hammacher Schlemmer. They have a funny name, but they have an awesome warranty. They claim it's for life, and it's for any reason.

So I called them and told the truth. My Roomba found dog poop and almost precipitated World War III.

And you know what they did? They offered to replace it. Yes, folks. They are replacing the Roomba that ran over dog poop and then died a poopy, watery death in the bathtub - by no fault of their own, of course.

So, mad props to Hammacher Schlemmer. If you're buying anything expensive, and they sell it, I recommend buying it from them. And remember - don't let your Roomba run over dog poop.
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Huge thanks to Phil @ Pinball Heaven and esp Hadfields (and the wife) who had to lug this up my drive all the way to the arcade streaming Friday!


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Quick vid for anyone interested in the Aldi robovac @ £130
Picks up dirt ok incl. led wedge lamps, gets around obstacles ok, finds home ok. You can also use the remote to send out to where you want cleaned. Easy empty.
No complaints yet, 3 year warranty and comes with spare parts👍
 
M4carp said:
Quick vid for anyone interested in the Aldi robovac @ £130
Picks up dirt ok, gets around obstacles ok, finds home ok. You can also use the remote to send out to where you want cleaned. Easy empty.
No complaints yet, 3 year warranty and comes with spare parts👍
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Not bad - but to really make my mind up I would need to see it drive over a poop
 
PabloUK said:
Cant wait got the call today mine due Friday! whoop whoop.

I hope they are all playing well following all the early teething problems.
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Mine is playing perfectly. So glad I went for the Le. The build quality compared to stern is second to none.The topper is another piece of art I think better than Attack from mars. The figures look amazing. The whole game with the extras make it even better than it was. Can’t wait for there next release. Thank you Phil Palmer Pinball Heaven :thumbs:
 
From a CGC POV I think they’ve done an excellent job in making these games and it’s great to play these games as intended without them being tired which many of the “originals” are.

From a what’s the best game POV - for me it was MM but I bought AFMR totally on spec - had not played the game at all but was so impressed with MMR and how AFMR looked with the topper and the screen thought I’d risk it. So glad I did.

AFMR is easily one of my most played games; and it’s also the machine that’s helped me improve my skills the most.

But all three of them are excellent MB maybe a little shallow of the three but the shots are lovely and the humour in the game excellent. Jack it up to max height take the runners of the inlanes and see how hard it is! Also was surprised to find that balls save is a factory off setting when MB came out and CGC have replicated that.

MB the family love and I was in the dog house when I sold it although I didn’t expect to wait quite so long for MBR!

CGC by a country mile are the most reliable machines I’ve had.

Neil.


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